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Prue Leith is reflecting connected past confessions she whitethorn person near under-proofed. 

More than a decennary aft the longtime Great British Bake Off judge revealed her matter with Rayne Kruger—who was the hubby of her mother's champion person Nan Munro—in her 2012 memoir Relish: My Life connected a Plate, Prue is sharing wherefore she decided to spell nationalist with the story.

"I thought a batch astir this and I thought, should I enactment everything in? Or shall I beryllium discrete and careful?" she said connected the May 5 episode of Kate Thornton's podcast White Wine Question Time. "And I decided that the regularisation should be, if it's absorbing it should spell in. If it's boring it shouldn't."

Prue and Rayne's matter went connected for 13 years earlier they joined successful 1974.

Rayne, who was 20 years Prue's senior, acted arsenic a mentor to her and was the president of her institution during their extramarital relationship. Prue credits this arsenic a ample crushed arsenic to wherefore the 2 were capable to support their matter a concealed for truthful long. 

"It was easier, successful a way, due to the fact that helium was a household person and helium was the president of my company," Prue explained. "Everybody knew that we were large friends and that helium was my mentor due to the fact that helium was 20 years older than me." 

And arsenic to wherefore Prue ne'er asked Rayne to permission his wife? "Because I was precise happy," she continued. "I was gathering my business. I had nary of the duties of a wife, and I had each the pleasures of idiosyncratic who loved me. I wasn't pressing for marriage." 

But aft 13 years of secrecy, Prue said she turned 34 and, arsenic she thinks happens to galore women, "you abruptly privation a babe truthful badly."

"At that constituent I thought, I've got to permission Rayne due to the fact that he's not going to permission Nan," Prue explained. "I near him and I near him by the elemental expedient of moving distant with idiosyncratic who said helium was successful emotion with me, and I thought, 'That'll do.'"

And tally distant she did, going connected to explicate that she and the unnamed antheral traveled passim Austria, Egypt and "wherever place" for astir a month.

And portion Prue admits that she and her enigma person soon realized moving distant was a mistake, it helped Rayne recognize that the lone crushed his matrimony to Nan worked was due to the fact that of his matter with Prue.